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Pink Floyd, Animals Cover Shoot (3A), Battersea Power Station, London, 1976
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Pink Floyd, Animals Cover Shoot (3A), Battersea Power Station, London, 1976

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By Carinthia West
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The image features the inflatable pig still tethered between the chimneys of Battersea Power Station in London. Even Hipgnosis did not manage to get a shot of the pig before it broke its lines and floated away. On the cover, the pig featured was added in post-production. 

“I shot a whole roll of film of London’s famed Battersea Power Station when the Pink Floyd flew a blow-up pig above it for their Animals cover in 1976. To everyone’s horror, the inflated pig slipped free from its moorings while aloft. The band had originally hired an ex-police marksman to shoot it down if this happened, but he never showed up." -- Carinthia West

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Pink Floyd, Animals Cover Shoot (3A), Battersea Power Station, London, 1976
Pink Floyd, Animals Cover Shoot (3A), Battersea Power Station, London, 1976

 
 
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